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Page from the Ten Bamboo Studio Manual of Painting and Calligraphy

Hu Zhengyan

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A painting of a flowering peach tree branch on aged beige paper. The branch, brown with some black shading, enters from the bottom-left corner and extends up and to the right. It has several knots and twists along its length. The left side has pink flowers with five petals and yellow centers. The right side of the branch has buds but no flowers. There are four vertical lines of black Asian characters on the right side. Under the characters is a red square seal with white characters. Below the seal is a circular beige mark. The image background is white.

Artwork Details

Date
first edition printed in 1633
Medium
Individual leaf from a printed book; ink and color on paper
Culture
China
Dimensions
600 × 516 px
Public Domain
Yes
Museum Record
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